WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday blacklisted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reputed top enforcer and the prime suspects in the murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London a decade ago. The US Treasury added Russia’s senior federal investigator Alexander Bastrykin and alleged assassins Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun to...

THE election of President Rodrigo Duterte has brought a geopolitical shift to the Philippines. No longer is the United States influencing the region as it once did, leaving space for Russia and China to fill the void. The Philippines has endured a long relationship with the U.S., but Duterte changed the outlook of his country with a series of...

WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday blacklisted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reputed top enforcer and the prime suspects in the murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London a decade ago. The US Treasury added Russia’s senior federal investigator Alexander Bastrykin and alleged assassins Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun to...

More than 20 people are now known to have died as icy temperatures continue to grip much of Europe. Ten people died of cold in Poland on Sunday. The bodies of three migrants, two Iraqi and one Somali, were found near the Turkish-Bulgarian border. Deaths have also reported in Italy, the Czech Republic and Ukraine. – See more at:...

The prolonged slump in world energy prices has produced a mix of benefits and looming risks for China, according to recent reports. The relative abundance of energy that followed the development of shale oil and gas in the United States has helped to ease energy security concerns in China and other Asian nations, according to studies published...

The president of the National Congress of Armenians of Ukraine, Ashot Avanesyan, has commented on reports alleging that he is a business partner of the chairman of the United Congress of Azerbaijanis in Ukraine, Rovshan Taghiyev, as well as the fact that they made a joint statement on Nagorno-Karabakh during the New Year’s Eve celebration...

ArmInfo. The official stand of Yerevan and Stepanakert rules out even the possibility to organize direct talks between the presidents of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, for instance, in Shushi the way it happened in the case of Moldova and Transnistria, ex-foreign minister of the Nagorno- Karabakh Republic, independent analyst Arman Melikyan has told...

DUSHANBE, 09.01.2017. /NIAT “Khovar”/. The overall condition of economic ties and the forecast for development of economic and commercial cooperation between the two countries were discussed by the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan Nematullo Hikmatullozoda and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the...